Publishing “$500 Million Company” Wants Cut of Pete Dexter’s Book By Neal on Feb. 14, 2008 - 6:01 PM There’s a great Daily Examiner story by Steve Volk about the legal tussle between Philadelphia Media Holdings and Pete Dexter over Paper Trails, a collection of Dexter’s journalistic writings for various outlets, inclu ...
Publishing Gather.com Enters Self-Publishing Arena with AuthorHouse By Neal on Feb. 14, 2008 - 5:33 PM Gather.com announced the launch of Gather Community Press, a collaborative venture with self-publishing specialist AuthorHouse (which recently acquired iUniverse. “Now you can break into the publishing world and see your wor ...
Authors Another Valentine’s Day Freebie By Neal on Feb. 14, 2008 - 4:35 PM Featherproof Books is offering a free download of Timothy Schaffert‘s short story “The Lovers of Vertigo,” the latest in their “Light Reading” mini-book series. The PDF files can be printed out and tu ...
Adaptation Watchmen, Lord of the Rings Hit by Lawsuits By Neal on Feb. 14, 2008 - 4:34 PM Watchmen image via Warner Bros. Earlier this week, 20th Century Fox sued Warner Bros. over who has the rights to make and release the Watchmen movie, based on the acclaimed (some say overacclaimed) graphic novel by Alan Moore and ...
Bookselling Bookstore Revenues Show Stability, Modest Growth for ’07 By Neal on Feb. 14, 2008 - 4:09 PM On the heels of yesterday’s news about a slight dip in book sales for December, PW Daily reported on December’s revenue specifically at America’s bookstores, which showed a 2.7 percent gain. The Census BureauR ...
Book Biz Zombies and Evil Twins: An Online Marketing Roundup By Neal on Feb. 14, 2008 - 9:01 AM ⇒Maureen Johnson is guest blogging on the Australian YA litblog Insideadog, and she’s come up with a truly wonderful promotion to give away a galley of her new novel, Suite Scarlett: “Take one paragraph of a book ...
Awards 2008 Commonwealth Writers Regional Shortlists Unfurled By Neal on Feb. 14, 2008 - 8:05 AM The Commonwealth Foundation announced the regional shortlists for its international literary prizes yesterday, with nominees for the 2008 awards for “best book” and “best first book” in Africa, Europe and S ...
Book Bix Book Sales: There’s Numbers, And There’s Numbers By Neal on Feb. 14, 2008 - 8:01 AM GalleyCat reader Sheila Gaines raises a good point about one of the blog’s recurring themes, the monthly posts on book sales statistics. “When you say book sales have increased in 2007 you might want to state how that ...
Book Biz With Love, From Publishing To You By Neal on Feb. 14, 2008 - 8:00 AM Here’s some more content what is being given away free by publishers today: ⇒For one day only, the Harlequin ebooks store has slashed the price on Sherryl Woods‘s The Valentine Wedding Dress from 49 cents to noth ...
Trends Open Source Blogging, Meet Content Marketing By Neal on Feb. 14, 2008 - 8:00 AM About a month ago, I told you how blogger Leo Babauta had plopped his Zen Habits site into the public domain, and now there’s further news on the “open source blogging” arena, as Joe Pulizzi puts his Junta42 blog ...